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WTF was that from Tucker? Cincy still in the lead, who woulda thunk. If the Poebird D shows up for a 2nd drive they got a good chance, if they let the Bengals carve them up for 5 minutes, eh.

They better set off the alarms and wake up their defense then, because Burrow is slicing them up like an electric knife through hot butter. 151 yds for Chase. Barring a pick-6, Poe-Birds gotta get their offense on the field in order to tie the game, and they gotta tie it before they can win it. Lamar Jackson sprinting backwards extensively not an effective ball moving strategy, either.

They'd better get on it then. Lamar playing at 0.5x speed, Trey Hendrickson rushing at 2x speed

That is true about Henry, and while I'd like to argue that previously the Ravens DID have Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards, they aren't in the same "weight class" as Henry; and 30 year old Henry is so far, looking as though he found the Fountain of Youth to return to his 2019/2020 prime. 1000+ yards after 9 games is ridiculous, especially when he's only playing 50-60% of the snaps per game. So I have to say you've got a point.

Recent history disagrees with your thinking. Bills are 2-3 vs Ravens under McDermott, including horrific loss in the 2018 season opener where Josh was thrown to the wolves; since Allen came into his own in 2020, 2-1 Bengals, we're 1-3 under McDermott; since 2020, we're 0-2

That seems plausible. Von Miller return from suspension also fills reps. My point was to @The Jokeman who suggested that Phillips and Jefferson were added to replace Smoot.

With whom?

So I don't know what the Bills thinking is, but Jordan Phillips is a 1TDT and Quinton Jefferson is kind of a "tweener", guy who can play both DE and DT. I'm not sure that either would be a good replacement for Smoot at DE.

Question: when has McDermott rotated players during the season?

He didn't rotate with Hamlin during the pre-season because of injury. Once the season started, the job was Hamlin's to lose. And he hasn't lost it. The Bills letting Edwards walk says to me that he's fallen off the depth chart for whatever reason, because otherwise why wouldn't they keep him in case of injury? If Joe Marino's info (via @HappyDays is correct, "bad attitude and low effort in practice" would be the reason for his fall.

Don't forget La'el Collins and Chase Claypool.

Don't you want your dime back to be strong in run support?

There actually are a lot of ligaments in the wrist that stabilize it and allow it to move side to side and up and down, not to mention thumb ligaments. Then move up a bit and there are all those ligaments that allow the fingers to flex. Now we move on to the tendons and all the little bones.... The thing is, unlike an ACL, the ligaments don't need to support the entire weight of the body, but they're still pretty critical to grip strength and motion of the hand.

He has to grip it, and hold it while DBs are trying to knock and rip it away, so the functional difference may not be that great Lawson is 30 years old, not 20. I don't think the "Carolina connection" has any basis in reality, but in this case since Lawson was drafted by the Bills and played for us 2016-2019 and 2022-2023, the coaches know him well. We'll see.

I'll take Samuel being involved any way he can get successfully involved. That's kind of an uncharacteristic, weird thing for McDermott to say, isn't it?

That is very well done.

I mean, Bill, maybe he did, but that kind of thing happens on almost every play, you could bet on it. And usually, it's not called unless it's really egregious. That happens to Dawkins. He gets penalized for being a Beast.

Well that was a sucky game. Texans got jobbed by the refs a couple times, but also Stroud.....well, he was supposed to be the Next Great Thing at QB. Shows how that can be derailed by crap pass protection and lack of open targets to throw to, though I thought he was pressing and looking too much downfield and wonder if the all-22 would show open targets underneath. Anyway, disappointed in the outcome of the game (wanted to see Rodgers lose) even though it's supposedly better for the Bills that the Jets win. Now I'm wondering if I misheard, but I was pretty sure I heard the announcers talking as though the Bills were the only team left on the Jets schedule that they had to worry about, which is very puzzling to me. When you're a 3-6 team, you probably need to worry about 4-4 teams like AZ, Colts, and Seahawks; Rams are only one win back on their entire division having had an early bye; and, I don't think we ought to count out the Dolphins. So I found that puzzling. Texans looked like they better figure something out quick on offense though.

Wow. Just…..Wow

I got nothin Also keon

OK, I guess his shin was down

I dunno that was pretty blatant I thought

Texans got hosed on that 4th down penalty. IMO.

Fitz with a crack about cayenne peppers

If I were a teammate of Rodgers, I’d get so tired of the way he rolls his eyes and looks to the heavens when his WR can’t haul in a catch.